Bug#825273: texlive-music: musixtex -l switch does not work

[Hilmar <hille42@web.de>]

On 25.05.2016 13:25, Johannes Schauer wrote:

Hi,

another try.

> the -l switch of the musixtex binary does not work. Steps to reproduce:
> 
> $ cat input.mtx
> c2+ e4 g
> $ musixtex -l input
> [...]
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.13 \nopagenumbers
>                    
> ? 
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.13 \nopagenumbers
>                    
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on haleluja.log.
> !! Processing of haleluja.tex fails.
> 
To be honest: I don't get your point. The -l switch tells musixtex that the to
be processed file is a LaTeX file. This is not correct in your case: you provide
a file, which needs to be pre-processed anyway. A plain TeX file is generated,
which compiles file, once you leave out the -l switch. Or do you care about the
generated intermediate files?

The -l switch make IMHO only sense, if the provided file is LaTeX. An example is
the musixtex doku istself, which still build fine using "musixtex -l -x musixdoc".

What am I missing?

Hilmar
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